Will Forte Teams With Wet Hot American Summer Director for Netflix's National Lampoon Founder Biopic

One of the co-founders of National Lampoon will be played by Will Forte in an upcoming biopic.

THR reports that Forte will portray Doug Kenney in the film, titled A Futile and Stupid Gesture. He's teaming up with David Wain, co-creator of Wet Hot American Summer, and the two are in negotiations to bring it to Netflix.

The script will adapt the 2006 book of the same name by Michael Colton and John Aboud. It details the story of Kenney's journey from editor of the Harvard Lampoon to the launch of National Lampoon, the resulting fame and fortune, and ultimately his possible suicide at age 33.

Will Forte is currently starring in Fox's Last Man on Earth. Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp was a Netflix hit last July that IGN called "a glorious gift."

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